Summary
Trimble High School is a small rural public high school in Glouster, Ohio, serving 182 students in grades 9–12 as part of Trimble Local. In 2025–2026 it ranked 663rd of 795 Ohio high schools (17th percentile, 1 star), while the district ranked 686th of 773 (11th percentile, 1 star). That places it near the bottom of its nearby comparison group, alongside Nelsonville-York High School, Federal Hocking High School, Miller High School, and Crooksville High School; by contrast, New Lexington High School, Logan High School, Morgan High School, and Athens High School rank higher.
Academically, Trimble’s 2025–2026 graduation rate was 90.2%, below most nearby schools except Nelsonville-York High School (89.2%). Chronic absenteeism was 42.7%, higher than every nearby traditional high school except Nelsonville-York (44.1%) and above the Trimble Local district rate of 36.4%, though it has improved from 55.6% in 2023–2024. Test scores were below state averages in every tested subject. Math is the clearest concern: Algebra I proficiency was 13.8% versus 61.6% statewide, and Geometry was 10.4% versus 43.3%; Algebra I was 0% in 2024–2025. English II was 50% versus 62.7% statewide. Biology was the strongest relative result at 64%, close to the state’s 67%, while American Government was 52.1% and American History 60.4%.
Resources look relatively favorable: the student-teacher ratio was 10.1 in 2024–2025, the lowest among the traditional nearby high schools, and per-student spending was $11,639 in 2018–2019, second only to Federal Hocking High School in the comparison group. Those advantages have not translated into stronger overall outcomes. One bright spot is the Gifted and Talented subgroup, which ranked in the 46th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, the only subgroup above the bottom quartile and a sharp improvement from the 16th percentile the prior year; Special Education and Low Socio Economic Status subgroups remained in the bottom fifth. Overall, the most urgent areas are Algebra I, Geometry, and attendance, and the school’s 2025–2026 rank slipped from the 27th percentile the year before.
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